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Run DMC’s “Tricky” was a banger for a first-time listener like my then seven-or-eight-year-old self, and the characters were cool as heck. But SSX Tricky came along one year and I played at my friend’s house which made me forget all about the other sports for a while. You could sprinkle in a “ Ready 2 Rumble” or something like that in there every now and again, but they never really stuck for more than a few weeks. My sports video game consumption throughout my childhood was mainly limited to basketball and football. But can we agree that Keisha Phillips and Dante Robinson were low key versatile? We all agree that Pablo Sanchez was the GOAT and we used Pete Wheeler’s speed for just about every sport that required it. I sat in front of that chunky computer monitor and played them ALL until the CDs scratched or the games started freezing the computer.

I must have been somewhere between the ages of four and eight when these games were at their peak. Backyard Soccer, Backyard Baseball, Backyard Football - how am I supposed to choose just one?!

This will be the first and only time that I group multiple titles together. Here’s a list of the sports games (in chronological order) that have me chasing that child-like feeling. So as I await the day that I’m able to actually get my hands on a new gaming system, I’m stuck reminiscing on the good ole days. It turns out that not only are these consoles EXPENSIVE nowadays (they were always expensive but it was mom’s and dad’s money back then) but actually getting your hands on one of these things is like trying to purchase toilet paper at the beginning of quarantine. And now I’m deciding to buy one with the unrealistic expectation that it’ll magically give me that gaming passion that I once had when back when I was a young kid. Why? I don’t actually know, but I’ve now spent too much time on YouTube watching videos and going down the rabbit hole of all the video games I used to play. Sometime last month I got a random urge to grab a PS5.